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As some of you may know, we decided to dissolve the non-profit Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording on December 31, 2017. The magnetic recording collection was begun in 1998. We’ve never had an employee and all the preservation has been completed within my spare time with my wife Chris’ support...

Happy New Year! Here's a link to our end of 2014 MOMSR.org status report. We sincerely appreciate all the support and encouragement this past year. On a sad note, we were very saddened to learn of the passing of Robert G. Metzner on December 21, 2014. He was a Founding Donor to the Museum...

We continue working toward permanent Museum in Austin, Texas. Collection now at 200+. Recently added cassette recorder category due to addition of RCA cartridge unit and some other cool cassette recorders. Just completed interview with Paul Stubblebine who toured our collection and sat for an...

Whether you record with an iPhone, a DAW, or are an analog purist, the devices we record on today made a huge leap forward when acoustic (cylinder and vinyl) went magnetic in 1935 in Germany with AEG's Magnetophon. Suddenly you could hear the dynamic ranges and the recording could be easily...

In the late 1990's, my R2R tape recorder collection was greatly influenced by a book my wife gave me called the "Evolution of the Audio Recorder" by Phil Van Praag. Phil had worked for Ampex as a Senior Instructor. His book discusses the evolution of sound recording and then profiled many of...

Hello! Just joined and would like to share info on the recording museum we're developing for Austin. I've been recording since the late '50's (pre-birth (:-). After letting go of all our analog recorders in the early 1990's, I decided to re-acquire the ones I'd worked with over the years...